By DOE Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. energy industry. Murkowski also emphasized that the industry can play a key role in the nation’s economic recovery.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A team of technical engineers is among the many groups growing to support the increased pace of liquid waste operations at EM’s Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - A significant component of EM’s complex chain of Hanford Site waste treatment facilities is marking a quarter century of safely treating contaminated wastewater while stretching the storage capacity of underground double-shell tanks.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: EM has named new managers for the Carlsbad and Los Alamos field offices, and a new Deputy Assistant Secretary for Safety, Security, and Quality Assurance, among leadership updates at its sites and at headquarters.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The EM and DOE Office of Legacy Management (LM) are nearing completion of a transfer of long-term stewardship responsibilities for 70 sites on the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), including the Tonopah Test Range (TTR).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton delivers remarks at an Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “Reviving our Economy: COVID-19’s Impact on the Energy Sector."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) has conducted large-scale demolition at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) for nearly 15 years.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today reiterating his request that the agency release its demographic claims data concerning the outcomes of COVID-19 based on race, ethnicity and gender.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 11 projects to receive approximately $17 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects for carbon utilization. The projects will develop and test technologies that can utilize ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.’s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared for delivery for today’s Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “Reviving Our Economy: COVID-19’s Impact to the Energy Sector:"
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Bicameral Democratic Health Committee leaders wrote to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today to reassert their request for a Special Enrollment Period (SEP) to help the millions of uninsured...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced that the Full Committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, June 23, at 11 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building, on the nation’s COVID-19 response with four key Trump Administration officials leading the response. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of the Trump Administration’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), and Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) released the following statement today after the Trump Administration finalized a discriminatory...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent a letter today to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai requesting that the Commission provide additional transparency...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., today commended the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation’s (DFC) decision to allow nuclear energy projects to apply for financing-as Murkowski and Manchin requested in an October 2019 letter to DFC.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced more than $20.1 million in federal funding for 58 projects supported by DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). The projects are a part of a larger Department-wide TCF effort, in which 82 projects will receive more than $33 million in federal funding and more than $36 million in matching funds from the private sector.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, earlier this week spoke on the Senate floor about the Great American Outdoors Act, which would help address deferred maintenance backlogs on federal land-including at National Parks and National Forests in Alaska-while providing greater funding for local recreational ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Today, House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) issued the following statement after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released guidance addressing concerns the Chairmen recently raised with the agency regarding the seizure of nursing home residents’ economic impact payments...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced over $33 million in funding for 82 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). With over $36 million in matching funds from the private sector, these projects will advance ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) wrote to Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Founder and CEO Eric Yuan asking questions regarding the company’s data privacy practices and potential coordination with the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party.
